Mine at the moment are swimming, archery (target shooting) and cooking for family and friends.Kind regards

Ben

“No lists of things to be done. The day providential to itself. The hour. There is no later. This is later. All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one's heart have a common provenance in pain. Their birth in grief and ashes.” - Cormac McCarthy, The Road

Learn this from the waters:in mountain clefts and chasms,loud gush the streamlets,but great rivers flow silently.- Sutta Nipata 3.725

Read what Thomas Mace so eloquently said about this in his "Musick's Monument", 1676:

We had for our Grave Musick, Fancies of 3, 4, 5, and 6 Parts to the Organ; Interpos‘d (now and then) with some Pavins, Allmaines, Solemn, and Sweet Delightful Ayres; all which were (as it were) so many Pathettical Stories, Rhetorical, and Sublime Discourses; Subtil and Accute Argumentations; so Suitable, and Agreeing to the Inward, Secret, and Intellectual Faculties of the Soul and Mind; that to set Them forth according to their True Praise, there are no Words Sufficient in Language; yet what I can best speak of Them, shall be only to say, That They have been to my self, (and many others) as Divine Raptures, Powerfully Captivating all our unruly Faculties, and Affections, (for the Time) and disposing us to Solidity, Gravity, and a Good Temper; making us capable of Heavenly, and Divine Influences. ... And These Things were Performed, upon so many Equal, and Truly-Sciz'd Viols; and so Exactly Strung, Tun'd, and Play'd upon, as no one Part was any Impediment to the Other, but still (as the Composition required) by Intervals, each Part Amplified, and Heightened the Other, The Organ Evenly, Softly, and Sweetly Acchording to All.

I like cycling, playing tennis and watching my favourite football team Manchester United.

I am on the path, however not yet advanced. Any opinions or insights I share are meant entirely for discussion purposes and in cases where people might find them beneficial in whatever way. Since I am not advanced on the Path, I cannot guarantee that what I say will always necessarily be 100% true or in line with the Dhamma. However, having had an extremely interesting life with a wide variety of different (many of them deep) experiences, I hope that anything I share will be of use, provide food for thought, and inspire interesting and beneficial discussions.

My newest hobby is CHAINSAWING! and then splitting wood. It's wonderful, and a bit scary.I cut huge cypress and pine trees into rounds, then split them with the axe into bits the right size for the log fire.Then, when winter comes around, I can sit in my shack and meditate, while outside it is snowing. A friend of mine said "Dude, I have never heard anyone link chainsawing so intimately with meditation."But it's true, chainsaws are an integral part of preparing for my practise. I don't see it as work, it's a fun hobby.

BTW it's a Stihl 066, a very very large chainsaw. The engine is bigger than some motorcycles I have owned.

Then, saturated with joy, you will put an end to suffering and stress.SN 9.11

Stefan wrote:I like cycling, playing tennis and watching my favourite football team Manchester United.

Wahey!!!

Books are always a great hobby, sadly I'm stuck at the moment, I'm desperate to read The Dream of the Red Chamber, and got it out of my local library, but am nowhere near intelligent enough to read it!